From: PJ Weisberg <pj@irregularexpressions.net>
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 19:58:28 GMT
Subject: Re: Rebase and incrementing version numbers
Message-ID: <CAJsNXTkDdHTMqmXCynT2nEYyuTmSF53RVtG2V+v7b+qcsYYufg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CADo4Y9is9mBOJaU+YRTMedTz7FfDrMFoDiqiUvQpVxQpyariPQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 10:48 AM, Michael Nahas <mike.nahas@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 1:12 PM, demerphq <demerphq@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Stop using version numbers and start using the git sha1 of the code
>> you are using.
>>
>> Yves
>
> 1. Others in the group use SVN.
> 2. The version number needs to be increasing, to work with the current
> process.  SHA1's are random.
> 3. The "git sha1" for the commit/snapshot cannot be put into the
> config file, which is part of the snapshot.

Suggestion #1:  Just put $Rev$ into the file and be done with it until
the team moves over to Git (at which point you can figure something
else out).

Suggestion #2:  In your release process, put something like `sed -e
"s/@@id@@/$(date +%s)/" source-dir/config > release-dir/config`

-PJ